General Ledger

[Derek Atkins]

Kevin Reid <kpreid at switchb.org> writes:

> On Nov 11, 2011, at 8:35, John Layman wrote:
>
>> Speaking of General Ledger, the General Ledger tool has a quirk of including
>> a phantom transaction for every open register (presumably, the entry line at
>> the foot of each register since the phantoms are zero transactions bearing
>> today's date.)  It's just a minor annoyance, but if many registers are open
>> it results in a lot of slop near the bottom of the ledger.
>
> I'd like to mention another annoyance which could perhaps be fixed in a way related to this:
>
> If I leave GnuCash open, with some registers open, across midnight, then those registers' blank transactions have the date of opening, rather than today's date, which is usually not what I want.

This is by design.  Just hit the '=' key while you are in the date cell
and it will increase by a day.  Unfortunately there is not a "today" key
to jump to today's date.  I think an enhancement request for that would
be good.

-derek

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